The King’s new cypher was revealed with great fanfare just days into his reign: a stylised monogram combining his initial “CIII” and “R” for Rex, with a representation of the Tudor crown.

King Frederik, who assumed the Danish throne after the abdication of Queen Margrethe II last year, has made a significant tweak to the royal coat of arms for the first time in more than 500 years ...

The Danish king has changed the country’s royal coat of arms to display symbols of Greenland and the Faroe Islands more prominently – in an apparent rebuke to Donald Trump.

A royal coat of arms is the king’s personal coat of arms and, at the same time, a state symbol. For the past several hundred years it has not changed much. It has featured a polar bear and a ram.